G/TBT/N/KEN/1509  
28 November 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  KENYA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200,  
Nairobi, Kenya  
Telephone: + (254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Tobacco, 
tobacco products and related equipment (ICS code(s): 65.160)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  KS 2976: 2023 
Smokeless Tobacco product -Specification.; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Kenya Standard specifies requirements for smokeless 
tobacco products intended for human consumption by chewing, sniffing. sucking or any 
other r oute of administration.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality require ments; 
Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
• PAS 8877:2022 Tobacco -free oral nicotine pouches – Composition, manufacture 
and testing – Specification (published by the British standards Institution)  
• SIS/TS 72:2020 Nicotine containing tobacco free oral pouches –Safety and quality 
related requirements (published by the Swedish Standards Institute)  
• PS 5468:2020 - Pakistan standard specification for Nicotine containing tobacco 
free oral product.  
• Globally Harmonized Syste m of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), 
United Nations, New York and Geneva.  G/TBT/N/KEN/1509  
 
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  • COUNCIL OF EUROPE. European Pharmacopoeia. Strasbourg, France: European 
Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare. Nicotine Monograph 
UNITED  
• STATES PHA RMACOPEIA AND THE NATIONAL FORMULARY. USP 32 -NF 27. 
Rockville, Maryland: The United States Pharmacopeial Convention Inc., pp. 3079 –
3081, Nicotine Monograph.  
• Tobacco control Act,2007  
• Tobacco control regulations, 2014  
• Food, drugs and chemical substances Act,  CAP 254  
• WHO -Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC),2003  
• Protocol to eliminate illicit trade of tobacco products.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 March 2024  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: + 
(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665 E -mail: 
info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/KEN/23_13815_00_e. pdf